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Dr Angela Daly
Swinburne Institute for Social Research
Controlling Disruption: Socio-Legal Aspects of 3D Printing
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rights- Gun control- Medical regulation- Consumer protection- Etc…
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What laws are affected by 3DP?
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Where & what is the IP?
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File-sharing and Intellectual Property
Moilanen, Daly, Lobato & Allen, ‘Cultures of Sharing in 3D Printing: What Can We Learn from the Licence Choices of Thingiverse users?’ (2015) 6 Journal of Peer Production
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‘By democratizing the precision creation of physical objects, 3D printing may make the creation of physical
objects nearly as widespread as the creation of [digitised] copyright-protectable works’
Weinberg, ‘It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw It Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology’ (2010) Public Knowledge White Paper
A new abundance?
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1. MakerBot as TakerBot?
2. Creative Commons-licenses for 3DP designs being breached by commercial operators (eg not complying with no-derivs or non-commercial)?
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Abundance works both ways
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The Dark Side of Democratisation
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“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed.”Second Amendment to the US Constitution
‘It’s already possible, if you want, to just go buy some pipes and put a gun together. This is another thing that I think has been conflated. People thought, ‘oh no this is the first time
now people can expediently make guns.’ No; in fact, this is a very inexpedient way of making a gun, and kind of
ridiculous. But it’s trying to be demonstrative and predictive of the future’
Wilson (2013)8
Reclaiming rights?
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Operation Imperium
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Spare parts
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Enabling the future?
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3D scanning
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Fashion -> biometrics
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- Regulate ‘access points’/gatekeepers: 3D printer manufacturers and online design repositories
- Get ISPs to monitor what users are doing online vis-à-vis 3D printing design files
- Self-regulation:
- Danish 3D printing firm Create It REAL announced it had come up with a firearms component detection algorithm which can give 3D printers option to block gun parts;
- example of Mega taking down the gun blueprint as well
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How to regulate?
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- people can make their own printers!- despite lots of laws & enforcement around IP rights and
digitised content, you can still easily get hold of pirated content
(see: Giblin, Evaluating Graduated Response (2014) 37 Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts)
- Presence of technical protection measures may mitigate liability of 3D printer manufacturers and intermediaries but they can easily be circumvented so maybe not effective enforcement
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Problems for effective regulation
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Real life attempts to regulate: DMCA
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“Now, companies and brands can market 3D models securely, at the same time, we can deliver a simple print experience straight from the cloud to the 3D printer.”
Lucas Matheson, Pinshape CEO
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Streaming files
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- Liberator – restricted by US Arms Export Control Act
- Discussion in Australia re more legislation to restrict 3D printed guns, design files etc
- PUP introduced Bill in QLD to regulate creation and possession of 3D-printed firearms.
- In Nov 2014, a parliamentary committee recommended that the bill be rejected and was never debated.
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Real life attempts to regulate: weapons
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Constitutionally-protected free speech in the US?
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“And other aspects of our legal system, like torts, will have to change when the people who produce goods are no longer large companies who design them but the very individuals
who might be injured by them… We may need to replace tort law with a social safety net as it becomes harder and harder
to find those who make unsafe products and hold them liable.”
Lemley, ‘IP in a World without Scarcity’ (2014) Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2413974
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Other ideas?
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“three disruptive technologies—file sharing, 3D printing, and distributed digital currency—have severely undermined the
legal and regulatory capacity of the state, resulting in an anarchic environment where actors’ behavior is determined primarily by factors other than legislation or governmental
authority”Michael, ‘Anarchy and Property Rights in the Virtual World’ (2013) SSRN working paper
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Post-control?
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Not so sure…
Arizmendi, Pronk & Choi, ‘Services No Longer Required? Challenges to the State as Primary Security Provider in the Age of Digital Fabrication’ (2014) Small Wars Journal
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- In principle, decentralised nature of 3D printing (coupled with Internet etc) DOES weaken the effective enforcement of various areas of law
- Extent to which this plays out in practice is key- Who is using 3DP? Benefitting from it?- Not only individuals – large corporations and the state too- Is Internet an instructive example? Not total control but
not total anarchy either…- Mainstream experience – controlled?
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Concluding thoughts